Liberal Muslims belong to a very old and venerable line, almost always in the minority, almost always crushed by their enemy brothers, intractable guardians of the strictest orthodoxy.
Yadh Ben Achour is an offshoot of this liberal lineage.
His father was mufti of the new Tunisian Republic, that of Bourguiba.
His grandfather was Sheikh al-Islam.
As a child, he recited entire passages from the Koran, and he remembers that at 8 years old, his father associated him with reading exercises of the sacred texts.
He had to decipher the prophetic hadiths, these maxims that Muhammad would have pronounced, but which were not collected until two centuries after his death.
For a Sunni theologian, the book of hadiths is as important as the Quran itself.
"My father, who was nevertheless very tolerant, put it next to the Koran,"
recalls the academic, a former member of the Tunisian Constitutional Council.
Today, the supreme psychoanalytic act, Yadh Ben Achour wants to
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